Sean Chalmers
Lead Product Engineer at Artificial Labs
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSean Chalmers is a Lead Product Engineer based in London with 12 years of experience blending functional programming expertise and product leadership to ship practical, high-performance software. He specializes in Haskell, type theory, dependent types and language hacking, and has moved from hands-on engineering roles into product-focused leadership at Artificial Labs after contributing as a Haskell engineer. Sean is an active open-source contributor — notably helping maintain the applied-fp course back-end to support multiple GHC versions and real course deployments — and he enjoys optimising applications and developer workflows. Equally at home in research and production, he pairs a tinkerer’s curiosity with disciplined process development to enable team creativity and productivity. Outside work he pursues high-adrenaline hobbies like rock climbing and skydiving, reflecting a taste for calculated risk and continual learning.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology with Distinction (completed), Software Engineering / High Performance Computing, 5.8, Bachelor of Information Technology with Distinction (completed), Software Engineering / High Performance Computing, 5.8 at Queensland University of Technology
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Github Skills (16)
cabal10
url-routing10
functional-programming10
obelisk10
encoding10
haskell10
webpages9
full-stack9
typesc9
database-api8
databases8
testing8
documentation8
database8
doctest7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
qfpl/applied-fp-course
Jan 2018 - Sep 2019
Applied Functional Programming Course - Move from exercises to a working app!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:135 commits, 52 PRs, 156 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Sean primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the "Applied Functional Programming Course" by modifying Cabal files to manage dependencies for different course levels. Their work involved adjusting build dependencies for various Haskell projects across levels, ensuring compatibility with different GHC versions. The commits focused on updating libraries such as `base`, `wai`, and `doctest`, as well as fixing capitalization and general course layout issues. Additionally, the user made changes to the database-related code.
fp-courseprogramming-coursefunctional-programminghaskellapplied
qfpl/reflex-dom-svg
Feb 2018 - Apr 2019
Helper package for working with SVG in Reflex
Contributions:39 commits, 5 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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